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lettersTo The Editor
Greetings from South Australia! In the November 2008 Newsletter, you included an item dealing with ‘Liberty’ commemorative mugs dating from 1902, 1911 and 1919.
My family were Lee Common residents for umpteen generations up until about 1950 and we too have examples of those three mugs. In addition we have a somewhat earlier one, dating from Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in 1897, and I have
attached some pictures
of this in case readers are interested. Unfortunately, I don’t know who specifically in my family was the original recipient of any of our mugs. If they were handed out to schoolchildren, then the 1897 one may have been my father’s (Lewis Brown) as he would have been 10 years old at that date.
Steve Brown
Port Noarlunga, South Australia
(In a ‘previous life’ from just opposite Crocketts Lane in Lee Common)
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To The Editor
Greetings from Lethbridge in Southern Alberta, Canada. I am the grandson of David Dorrell and his wife Lucy (Heley), who, until they died in 1953 and 1960 respectively, lived at Kings Ash. Their eldest son was Frederick James Dorrell, who was, in turn, my father. Fred was a domestic gardener who started work at The Lee. Later, he moved to Petworth, near Chichester, and then to Maristow, just north of Plymouth. It was there he met my mother, Gladys, and they married in April 1939.
My dad died in June 1978 and my mom in April 2008. Following her death, I
was sent a box of old photographs, etc, that included these of The Old Church
and The Manor, The Lee. Unfortunately I am unable to date them.I have been in touch with a Vic Rance, who, I believe, is connected to the family for whom my grandfather worked as a farm labourer. He suggested a Google search to me, as a result of which I found The Lee Newsletter.
The package also included the originals of several Dorrell-related birth,
marriage, and death certificates, and my dad’s Book of Common Prayer, annotated
as having been given to him by his parents at his Confirmation at Christmas
1926.Anyway, seeing as Vic had made this suggestion, I thought that, while you might already have these pictures in your archives, you might like to see them again and know that their ‘fame’ has stretched around the planet!
If anyone can date them I would be delighted to know.
David C. Dorrell
Alberta, Canada